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I'm trying to use an API in a practice project and one of the values in the JSON, dateTimeLocal, is a date & time in UTC format.

In my cellForRowAt method I put the date/time into a label:

override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {

    let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "eventsCell", for: indexPath) as! EventsTableViewCell



    let event = eventData[indexPath.row]



    cell.eventTimeLabel.text = event.dateTimeLocal



    return cell

}

And this prints out the date and time as:

2018-11-26T19:00:00

I'd like to get this date and time in a format that reads, using the above date/time as an example,

November 26, 2018 @ 7:00pm

Is this possible or will I have to include the date and time in the given UTC format?

Here's the rest of the code if it's applicable to this issue:

The structs to decode the JSON:

struct Welcome: Decodable {

    let events: [Event]

}



struct Event: Decodable {

    let title: String

    let dateTimeLocal: String

    let venue: Venue



    enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey {

        case title

        case dateTimeLocal = "datetime_local"

        case venue

    }

}

And this function to fetch the data:

func fetchData<T: Decodable>(url: URL, completion: @escaping (FetchResult<T>) -> (Void)) {



    URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: url) { (data, response, error) in



        guard let data = data else {completion(.failure(error!)); return}



        do {

            let object = try JSONDecoder().decode(T.self, from: data)

            completion(.success(object))

        } catch {

            completion(.failure(error))

        }

    }.resume()

}

Which is called in my viewDidLoad:

    fetchData(url: seatGeekApiUrl) { (result: FetchResult<Welcome>) -> (Void) in



        switch result {

        case .success(let object): self.eventData = object.events

            print("neventData: nn(self.eventData)")

        case .failure(let error):

            print("nError decoding JSON: nn(error)")

        }

        DispatchQueue.main.async {

            self.tableView.reloadData()

        }

    }

First of all decode dateTimeLocal as Date

let dateTimeLocal: Date

and add the appropriate date decoding strategy to decode the (not fully compliant) ISO 8601 string

let decoder = JSONDecoder()

let formatter = DateFormatter()

formatter.locale = Locale(identifier: "en_US_POSIX")

formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss"

decoder.dateDecodingStrategy = .formatted(formatter)

let object = try decoder.decode(T.self, from: data)

In the view controller class add a static date formatter on the top level

let dateFormatter : DateFormatter = {

   let formatter = DateFormatter()

   formatter.locale = Locale(identifier: "en_US_POSIX")

   formatter.dateFormat = "MMMM dd, yyyy '@' h:mma"

   return formatter

}()

and in cellForRow assign the formatted date

cell.eventTimeLabel.text = dateFormatter.string(from: event.dateTimeLocal)